In the tele-operation of an uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV), the operator and vehicle are physically separated. The limited sources of information of the environment, e.g., lack of a complete outside view, sounds, vehicle motions and vibrations, often lead to poor situation awareness. Tele-operation usually involves the use of a visual interface on a ground station, providing a navigation disp...

In this paper, we make an output quality comparison of haptic media synchronization algorithms in work where a user lifts and moves a virtual object and in a remote haptic drawing system. As a haptic interface device, we use PHANToM DESKTOP or SPIDAR-G AHS in the former work and PHANToM Omni in the latter. We handle five haptic media synchronization algorithms: Virtual-Time Rendering (VTR), Buf...

In this paper the evaluation of a novel haptic macro-micro telemanipulation system is presented. The system includes an interface between a haptic mechanism and a mobile microrobotic platform driven by two centripetal force actuators. The unique characteristics and challenges that arise during the haptic micromanipulation using the specific microrobotic platform are described. The tele-manipula...

Haptic interfaces are becoming more commonplace in virtual environment and teleoperation systems. There is a growing need to not only continue to improve hardware platforms and rendering algorithms, but evaluate human performance with haptic interfaces. This review summarizes two recent studies inspired by perception problems in using haptic interfaces to interact with virtual environments. The...

This paper focuses on the development and evaluation of a haptic enhanced virtual reality system which allows a human user to make physical handshakes with a virtual partner through a haptic interface. Multimodal feedback signals are designed to generate the illusion that a handshake with a robotic arm is a handshake with another human. Advanced controllers of the haptic interface are developed...

The haptic modality is currently underutilized and poorly understood as a design material in game design. There are few computer games to draw on for inspiration during design explorations. This design case study explores how to use the haptic modality as a design material for computer game interfaces that requires neither graphics nor audio. The idea behind the case study is that a better unde...

This paper presents a simulation system which integrates a realtime hand sensing and force-feedback interface (the Rutgers Master II) with a full body modeling software (JACK ). The RM– II system and the Polhemus Fastrak 3D magnetic tracker were initially integrated with “JACK" full-body simulation software. The system performance (graphics update rates, sensor reading updates) is evaluated on ...